Broom bridle



Jan. 30, 1923.

- 1,443,811. F. c. BOWMAN. I

BROOM BRIDLE.

FILED AUG. 23. 1921- Patented Jan. 30, 1923. I i,@3,%i:i

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FRANK G. BOWMAN, OF BROADWAY, VIRGINIA.

BROOM BRIIDLE.

Application filed August 23, 1921. Serial No. 494,685.

To all whom it may concern allelism therewith, and furthermore one arm Be it known that FRANK C. BOWMAN, a of each of the members, preferably the arm citizen of the United States of America, rewhich carries the tongues 14 is provided siding at Broadway, in thecounty of Bockwith an ear 15 of triangular or pointed form 5 ingham and State of Virginia, has invented secured to and extending inwardly from the new and useful Improvements in Broom arm and designed to engage with the strands Bridles, of which the following is a speciof the broom head to establish an interlockfication. ing relation between the bridle and the head.

The object of the invention is to provide The arrangement of the members in re- 10 a simple, efiicient and readily applicable versed relation provides for the overlapping broom bridle or holder for engagement with of the tongued arm of one member by the the head of a broom as a means of reinforcslotted arm of the other member as shown ing the strands thereof and shortening to in Figure 2, and by extending the tongues the desired extent the flexible portions therethrough the slots and folding them into par- 15 of to suit the purposes for which the broom allel relation with the arms as shown in is designed, the bridle being of such con- Figure 3, after a suitable or preferred relastruction as to adapt it for successive use on tive adjustment of the members has been atdifferent broom heads; and with this object tained to apply the required edgewise com-v in view the invention consists in a construcpression to the head, the bridle will be held 20 tion and combination of parts of which a in place with the flexibility of the fibres or preferred embodiment is shown in the acstrands of the head limited to a length suitcompanying drawings, wherein able for the particular purpose for which Figure 1 is view of a bridle embodying the broom is designed. the invention applied in the operative posi-' It will be noted from the construction 25 tion to a broom head. illustrated that the two elements constitut- Figure 2 is a similar view of the bridle deing the bridle are precisely alike but when tached with the members thereof disconarranged with their loopedendsopposite nected. the tongues on the arm of one element are Figure 3 is alongitudinal sectional view positioned for engagement with the slots in 30 of the bridle with the members interlocked. I the arm of the other element and the tongue The bridle is of sectional construction emis being arranged in approximate parallelbodying separable members 10 and 11 each ism with the arms, the two members may be of which is of looped form and consists of moved longitudinally towards each other so a single blank of strap or sheet metal or that the tongues may be engaged in succeed- 35 equivalent material. These members are ing slots until the desired adjustment is sedisposed in reverse relation with reference cured, vthe tongue swinging inward as the to the broom head indicated at 12 and which members are moved towards each other. In may be of any ordinary or conventional transportation, the members can be arranged form, to the end that the edge portions of in a nesting relation in which case the 40 the head are respectively received in the tongues of the two members will be adjaloops of said members, and the inwardly cent each other and the slots correspondextending arms of the members are provided ingly adjacent each other, the deflection ofwith interlocking means whereby the overthe tongues from the surface of the arms lapped portions thereof may be secured tobeing sufiicient to provide an interlocking 45 gether to hold the broom head edgewise at engagement when thetwo members are in any desired degree of compression. such nesting relation.

In the construction illustrated one arm Having described the invention, what is of each member is provided with a series of claimed as new and useful is I slots 13 while the other arm is provided A broom head bridle consisting of sep- 50 with tongues 14 struck out of the material arable substantially U-shaped members arof the arm and disposed in approximate par ranged in opposed relation with the arms of 1&2: member overlapping relation with those of the otheiy one arm of each member being provided with upstruck tongues ch5- posed in slightly diwergent relation with t of? Said arms and the remai..1n=' arms being formed L 310% or engag ment by said tongues, the arms carrying; the tongues 5125121131 engaging the inner faces of the arms: hzu'ing the dots: m the "necessive engagement of the tongues Wich the slots as the two members we moved longitudinally JOY-521E125 eat-h other in the attaehmen; of: {he same 50 a broom head.

In terjf-imony whereof he afiixes his signature.

FRANK C. BOWIKEAS 

